@inproceedings{d57dfece608b4120a84132622fd83f3a,
title = "A New Thermodynamic Equilibrium-Based Metaheuristic",
abstract = "In this work, a new optimization method inspired on the Thermodynamic Equilibrium is described to address nonlinear problems in continuous domains. In our proposal, each decision variable is treated as the most volatile chemical component of a saturated binary liquid mixture at a determined pressure and temperature. The optimization procedure is started with an initial solution randomly generated. The search is done by changing the equilibrium state of each mixture. The search is carried out by accepting worse solutions to avoid being left trapped in local optimums. The search includes the random change of the mixtures. The algorithm was tested by using known mathematical functions as benchmark functions showing competitive results in comparison with other metaheuristics.",
keywords = "Combinatorial optimization, Metaheuristics, Single-solution based metaheuristic, Stochastic search methods",
author = "Broderick Crawford and Ricardo Soto and Enrique Cort{\'e}s and Gino Astorga",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank the grants given as follows: Ph.D. Broderick Crawford is supported by grant CONICYT/FONDECYT/ REGULAR/1171243. Ph.D. Ricardo Soto is supported by grant CONICYT/ FONDECYT/REGULAR/1160455. MSc. Enrique Cort{\'e}s and MSc. Gino Astorga are supported by grant INF-PUCV 2015. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer International Publishing AG.; null ; Conference date: 12-09-2017 Through 14-09-2017",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-67618-0_31",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319676173",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "336--346",
editor = "Radek Silhavy and Petr Silhavy and Zdenka Prokopova",
booktitle = "Cybernetics Approaches in Intelligent Systems - Computational Methods in Systems and Software 2017",
}